 I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellowcreatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting...  A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italyvon Laurence Sterne - 1798Auszug - Über dieses Buch
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 Seiten
...figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions...of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that... | |
 | 1886 - 562 Seiten
...figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions...of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery, but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that... | |
 | 1886 - 328 Seiten
...heart. 1 remember a fine illustration in the writings of Sterne. Let me quote the passage entire : ' ' I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that... | |
 | George W. France - 1890 - 630 Seiten
...thee, thou art no less bitter on that account. I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery, then I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, beheld his body... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1892 - 460 Seiten
...figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it. and so I gave full scope to my imagination ; I was going to begin with the...of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting that picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 Seiten
...figure to myself the miseries of a confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions...of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it neav me, and that... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 Seiten
...figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions...of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery, but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 628 Seiten
...figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions...of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 Seiten
...figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions...of my fellow-creatures, born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that... | |
 | Longman (Firm) - 1899 - 296 Seiten
...figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions...of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting 80 the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and... | |
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